Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-25

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AYERS Il LYNCH.
We have received another large
installment of the ILLUSTRATED HER
AID, and orders for this matchless
uresentation OF the resources and
attractions of our section will be now
allied as soon as sent in.
Cheap Coal and It's Consequence.
DR.. Cougar, who has recently re-
turned from a very. thorough explor-
ing expedition in Southern Utah,
says that the gas coal mines in that
region are extensive, and the coal
itself Of an excellent quality for fuel
purposes. The completion of the
projected extension of the Utah
Southern railroad to Los Angeles
would enable consumers here to get
coal from those mines at the rate OF
about five dollars per ton. This
would be one of the most beneficent
boons that could be conferred upon
our city and section. 1t would mean
the building up of great and diversi-
fed manufactures here, and would
make Los Angeles one of the most
important centers in the world for
the reduction of ores. Our city is
backed by great number of the
richest and most extensive mining
districts on this coast. Many OF
these have languished because the
ores have to be hauled to such dis
tances as to render the operation OF
all but the richest lodges unprofita-
BILE. Reduction works in operation
in Los Angeles would enable the
owners of lodges carrying small per-
centages Of metallic successfully work
their mines. Besides the districts al
ready opened in our back country, the
projected railroad would pass through
q mineral region of vast extent, in
which are many districts that would
be found to be worth working. 1t
would create new activity in Pioche,
Belmont and all that region OF South
eastern Nevada, which is known to
be rich in ores, that can only be
worked profitably at reduction works
accessible at reasonably cheap rates
of freight. Cheap coal in Los Ange-
les, and direct transportation of ores
from our tributary dormant mines,
would render the establishment here
of such reduction works most invit-
ing enterprise to capital. No
one who knows anything of the
great mineral treasures of the region
through which this projected exten-
sion is to pass, has the slightest doubt
of the vast amount of traffic in store
for the first railroad that makes a
through connection with our city.
The inducements to extend the Utah
Southern to tidewater here, are SO
great that we are disposed to believe
that the Union Pacific company,
which virtually has control OF the
Utah Southern, will before long
make the extension. 1t would at
once give the Union Pacific footing
on this coast and the assurance of a
vast and profitable intermediate traf-
fic. The distance from the present ter
minus OF the Utah Southern to Los
Angeles is only about 700 miles.
Indeed, by the old wagon road
from this city to Salt. Lake,
the distance is only about 800 miles.
The superficial distance from Ogden
to San Francisco is about $50 miles;
but reckoned by railroad miles-that
is, allowing for the heavy grades and
curves-Ogden is nearly l4O0 miles
from San Francisco. At the present
time, mine owner, in say Phoebe,
who has ore to ship to the San Fran
cisco reduction works, has to pay
freight upon at least 1900 miles of
railway carriage. With the Utah
Southern coming to Los Angeles, he
would only have to pay for about 500
miles of railway transportation. |
These figures show the value OF the
projected road. From Ogden to Los
Angeles by the present railroad route
the distance in railroad" miles is
1900. BY the Utah Southern it would |
be only $50. Thus we have the
advantage OF 1920 railroad miles over
San Francisco in favor of the Salt |
Lake traffic alone. These figures are
doubtless we'll known to railroad men,
and we are therefore forced to believe |
that the various rumors thrown out
about the extension OF the Utah |
Southern to Los Angeles have a real |
basis of truth at their foundation. 1t
is now positively asserted that Rat
tlesnake Island has been bonded to
the Utah Southern, or in other words
to the Union Pacific. A large guar
antee fund accompanies the lands, as
we are told. This would seem sig
Of business. There is one
about the region between
Los Angeles and the present terminus |